"MacGruber" Movie Begins Filming in August

Back in May it was announced that Lorne Michaels and the people from "SNL" are working on turning the "MacGyver" spoof skit, called "MacGruber," into a movie. Now, ProductionWeekly is reporting that Jorma Taccone has been hired to direct the new project, which will begin filming next month in New Mexico.

In the popular skit, Will Forte is always seconds from disarming a bomb, but gets sucked into idle chatter or an argument while his friends yell at him to focus on the bomb. Most of the shorts were written by Taccone, Forte and John Solomon.

Outside of writing the shorts with Forte and John Solomon, Taccone also created the MacGruber character and is the man behind the camera. So it only makes sense that he would be given a chance to direct the feature film.

a whole movie, Y? They should do a 30 minute web movie and leave it at that. I mean the skit is at best chuckle-funny. SNL has way funnier skits than that. Will FOrte had to give someone a BJ to get that thing green-lit. I'm sorry.

Well... we all know how this could go. Tommy Boy... funny. Black Sheep sucked so many dead farts from as many dead cows. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground. This could be A Night at the Roxbury... or it would be Beverly Hills Ninja. No telling really.